Monkey Business...Edwards, Wrong About Everything?

In "My
Monkey" (05/15/2009), primate center director Joe Kemnitz and
veterinarian Buddy Capuano dismiss Bill Lueders’ questions about rhesus
monkey r04040’s diarrhea by saying wild monkeys also have diarrhea. They
must be either unfamiliar with the literature on this serious widespread
problem in primate laboratories, or else were being less than forthcoming.

In peer-reviewed journals, their colleagues have noted that: "Chronic
enterocolitis [diarrhea] is the leading cause of morbidity in colonies of
captive rhesus macaques.... In colonies of nonhuman primates, recurring
diarrhea is the leading cause of animal morbidity requiring veterinary
care."

The primate vivisectors may not want to discuss this problem because, if
they can’t cure diarrhea, how likely is it that they will cure AIDS?

Said George Bernard Shaw: "It is hardly to be expected that a man who
does not hesitate to vivisect for the sake of science will hesitate to lie
about it afterwards to protect it from what he deems the ignorant
sentimentality of the laity."

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